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> "Why did the arms race tip towards men competing and women getting it easy? Probably cultural norms."

Cultural norms that are followed by every live-birthing animal species, how strange.

You haven't brought up any. But some are pretty common. I'm just arguing that PC prevents free thought and the dispassionate analysis of evidence, since it applies moral values to the evidence itself and it prejudicially strikes out some plausible hypotheses.

For example, I don't buy that racism is the sole reason for the underrepresentation of some ethnic minority groups in tech because other ethnic minority groups that have been historically oppressed and discriminated against are overrepresented in tech. But if someone posted an article about how "tech is racist" and I said "I'm not sure that tech is racist", then someone could call me a racist and I could lose my job if someone got offended.

So anonymity is essential for exploring non-progressive ideas and, I think, for getting closer to truth. There are lots of non-progressive/anti-progressive ideas that are plausible given the available evidence, but nobody will discuss under their real name.

But political correctness can prevent you from questioning progressive dogmas. Many of them are not born out by fact, but it is impolite to disagree with them.

If the facts don't agree with my opinions, I change my mind. But that rapidly pushes you into thought-criminal territory in today's world.

There are a lot of facts about the world and reasonable hypotheses that are impolite/inappropriate to discuss. Anonymity can be used to discuss them without getting shouted down by the PC police.

Gratuitous racial slurs are racist. But racial crime statistics are also racist. If a worldview is afraid of some facts, then it has some holes in it.